Sentences with phrase «prodigious artists»

Fear of personal retrospection dooms many prodigious artists to repetition (and certainly Carpenter's an artist, and certainly he's repeated himself), though, since part of progress is looking back to see if you've made some.

Bronze sculptures including Annette assise (petite)(1956) bring to life the prodigious artist's notes and drawings.

Counting over 200 pages and 145 colour illustrations, Prestel's Brand - New & Terrific Alex Katz in the 1950s is a beautiful publication worthy of this prodigious artist.

Although primarily known for his sculpture, Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit, whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking, miniatures (such as his famous Cirque Calder), children's book illustrations, theater set design, jewelry design, tapestries and rugs, and political posters.

Not exact matches

As he brings his Walt Whitman opera Crossing to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the young composer - conductor and Los Angeles Opera's artist - in - residence muses on his prodigious start, his upcoming commission for the Metropolitan Opera, and the future of classical music.

A look at the last 25 years of the life of artist JMW Turner, his screenplay highlights the master as man, detailing both his prodigious artistic talent and the emotional vulnerability that defined his character.

The prodigious thinker's conceptions of blackness and collaboration have been taken up by artists and curators engaged with politics, gender, and race.

Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss have been known throughout their prodigious careers for their sculpture, photography, and videos that present common objects and quotidian scenes in inventive and surprising ways.

From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that hangs on a diagonal on the wall — a work which marks the artist's first use of fluorescent light alone, until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations of light and color.

DC Moore Gallery president Bridget Moore and gallery director Edward DeLuca wrote: «A witty and insightful woman, Jane was an artist of prodigious ability and great integrity whose luminous paintings of land, sea and sky made her one of the leading landscape painters of our time.»

An artist of diverse talents and prodigious energy, Bronx - born Alfred Leslie was still a teenager in the 1940s when he began making paintings, sculptures and films, as well as taking photographs and writing music and short stories.

While Brainard's early appropriation of commercial language and symbols placed him alongside artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Brainard's prodigious stylistic diversity separated his work from that of other Pop artists.

Working alongside choreographers and dancers from The Royal Ballet on sets and costumes for a new ballet Diana & Actaeon has been a revelation to the artist and has sparked a prodigious body of work.

There are scores of other recent examples of secret art — shows of paintings by Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina that appear suddenly, announced to only a select group, each year for a single day at Friedrich Petzel Gallery (most recently in March); a two - person show last summer at the Untitled gallery with a rear wall that, when pushed, swiveled and, like a James Bond - style hidden - door bookcase, opened onto a prodigious group show; the recent obsession over Kraftwerk's über - secret studio in Germany in advance of the group's MoMA retrospective; the hidden rooms and trap doors in Swedish artist Klara Lidén's shows (there's one in her current New Museum retrospective); and a drawing by David Hammons at MoMA that was covered with a cloth and unveiled only a few minutes a week by appointment at select times.

Exhibition of small - scale terracotta maquettes reveals Arneson's evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious imagination.

This exhibition, organized by Sammlung Essl chief curator Gabriele Bösch, is the first comprehensive look at the artist's prodigious output and consists of approximately 200 works from the past

As it happened, I slipped in under the wire: The entire prodigious morning - after mess was about to be packed up and shipped off to New York, where it goes on view this month at David Zwirner Gallery right on time for auction week — just as the artist had planned it.

Produced over a quarter of a century beginning in 1964, the maquettes offer a unique view into the sculptor's creative process: some illustrate the origins of compositions for monumental works, while others document ideas not realized ultimately in large scale or provide fascinating examples of early sculptural ideas that underwent significant transformation as they emerged as full - scale sculptures in the exhibition chronicle Arneson's evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious imagination.

What / Why: «Struggling to secure his reputation as a great American artist, Samuel F. B. Morse sailed to Europe in 1829, and embarked on a period of intense study and prodigious copying of great works of art that culminated in his grand painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831 — 33).

This exhibition, organized by Sammlung Essl chief curator Gabriele Bösch, is the first comprehensive look at the artist's prodigious output and consists of approximately 200 works from the past decade, including paintings, photographs, collages, videos, and a site - specific installation.

Joanne Greenbaum: Things We Said Today follows New York - based artist Joanne Greenbaum's prodigious mark - making and uncanny color sensibility across media and surface over a ten year period, 2007 - 2017.

The artists in the exhibition, LifeLoggers: Chronicling the Everyday, take logging to a new level by translating their data into complex and prodigious artwork.

An artist of wide acquaintance and prodigious range — his mediums include painting, film, photography, theater and prose — refelcts on his epic career.

It might be surprising and seem ironic then that a group of paintings, drawings and sculpture representative of the prodigious output by British artists from the post-war years, together with others from the 21 - year inter-war period — itself dogged by unemployment and poverty, and hit hard by the 1929 Wall Street Crash — are expected to reach a combined total of # 7.2 — 10.8 m ($ 11.9 — 17.3 m) in this forthcoming auction at Sotheby's, London.

Albert Oehlen studied in Hamburg with Sigmar Polke, played a central role in a prodigious group of artists who came to the fore in the»80s, and was associated with various movements and groups — some apt, some gratuitous.

Serota has good relationships with artists, has names and faces at his fingertips and a prodigious memory, filing away stories and foibles, social connections and networks.

When the prodigious Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell first visited China, in 2001, they found the artists they met fascinating, but they were frankly unimpressed by the art itself.

Gathering five decades of practice, from early Arte Povera experiments to the enigmatic sculptures created in the 1980s and 1990s, to later installations that balance intimacy with impressive scale, the exposition will survey the prodigious talent and influence of the artist's understudied body of work.

Despite Schiele's short life, however, he produced a prodigious amount of work, and the mere fact that his oeuvre can sustain so many simultaneous exhibitions — Egon Schiele: Beginning and End, at the Egon Schiele Museum, Tulln, Austria, Egon Schiele: Portraits at the Neue Galerie in New York, Egon Schiele — Jenny Saville, at Switzerland's Kunsthaus Zürich, in which 35 paintings by Schiele are juxtaposed against 16 large - format works by the British artist, Jenny Saville (1970 --RRB--- pays tribute to its superb quality and breadth.

What these two share is a life - long artistic practice with a prodigious production that bears witness of the necessity to express oneself through art — often despite a lack of recognition from society at large or the art establishment, or an ability to make ends meet as an artist.

Drawing upon the artist's prodigious knowledge of art history and the African diaspora, his paintings combine figurative and abstract styles and multiple allusions, drawing from «high» and «low» sources.

His prodigious zine work can be found in several national artist book collections including the Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Jersey Public Library; National Academy of Design, New York; Indiana University and School of the Art Institute of Chicago His collaborative printmaking work with the comix artist ONSMITH has been written about in Art in Print.

Hall, 66, is also a prodigious collector of art who, with his wife and their foundation, owns more than 5,000 pieces by several hundred artists including Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys.

A pivotal moment in Whitten's process - oriented practice, the works on view are made from the manipulation of toner on paper, emblematic of the artist's prodigious experimentation that has continued to influence his practice in subsequent decades.

SL As an artist in the late»50s I was aware that while Abstract Expressionism was the major form and that prodigious works were being made at the time, the end was in sight.

Home to internationally renowned museums, leading art schools, hundreds of contemporary galleries, and a prodigious number of practicing artists, Los Angeles serves as the perfect landscape for a progressive, international contemporary art fair.

This first ever exhibition brings to light Kosarev's prodigious talent and exposes the fundamental relationship between the artist and the site of his creative stimulus, his beloved city, Kharkiv,» said Maria Shust, director of The Ukrainian Museum.

MADISON, WI — Throughout his long and prodigious career, Frank Stella has been a major force in the art world, internationally hailed as one of America's greatest artists.

«Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented», de Kooning famously once remarked, but in fact, these works grew out of an extended period of innovation in which that artist had deliberately attempted to subvert his prodigious gifts as a draughtsman in favour of newer, unconsciously made, but more vital marks.

In creating within such constraints, as he has done here once again, the artist allows his prodigious visual imagination and his idiosyncratic, confident and highly skillful treatment of paint to occupy center stage.

A painter and printmaker of prodigious creative energy and imagination, John Hoyland, who has died aged 76 of complications following heart surgery in 2008, was widely recognised as one of the greatest abstract artists of his time.

Encapsulating absurdly prodigious and outrageously stimulating works, Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work is a blistering retrospective of Pettibon's over five - decade career, and is the artist's first major survey in New York City.

Rather than following a chronological path through Oehlen's prodigious thirty - year career, the exhibition explores contrasts between interior and exterior, nature and culture, and irony and sincerity, while also demonstrating the artist's commitment to continually expanding the language of painting in surprising ways.

Fishman's narrow - gauged though prodigious output demonstrates that she, like many other artists of her generation (Brice Marden, Robert Mangold, Bill Jensen, Pat Steir, Robert Ryman), is uninterested in extravagant experimentation with concept, approach, or materiality.